tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57762520977362002422014-10-02T01:20:44.920-04:00Jayson Blairjayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776252097736200242.post-47952357535646658152013-09-28T13:35:00.001-04:002013-09-28T16:10:38.600-04:00My Rubix Cube and McLean (Hospital)
I love being home on Saturdays with my family. I enjoy my morning rituals. I enjoy the hikes we tend to take along the Potomac River, the museums we visit and the dinners in Washington. I especially like my morning espresso at the coffee shop down the street from where I live and the espresso at a Georgetown place better known for its cupcakes. I like my rituals.
So, its with hesitation that jayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776252097736200242.post-61724256034532744432012-07-31T10:25:00.001-04:002012-07-31T10:25:19.345-04:00Jonah LehrerI wrote a piece for Newsweek last night and gave a Q&A to Salon on the journalism scandal involving Jonah Lehrer. I have sympathy for him. Another young promising journalist whose self-sabotage is lead to the end of his career (he worked for The New Yorker until yesterday). I vividly remember that feeling of not being able to let go as my career crumbled like the Monte Cassino under weeks of jayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776252097736200242.post-2845122643647221082012-07-27T13:22:00.004-04:002013-02-05T15:31:45.026-05:00Shalom to a Friend
Shalom is a word that has many meanings. It is a Hebrew word that
means peace, welfare, completeness, hello and goodbye.
In his 1995 eulogy at Yitzak Rabin's funeral, Bill Clinton captured the
world when he uttered the simple Hebrew phrase, "Shalom Chaver" --
Farewell, my friend. This week I had the unfortunate duty of saying
goodbye to my friend.
In Beth Nielsen Chapman's song "Sand and jayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776252097736200242.post-77004271985390455002012-01-04T11:36:00.001-05:002012-01-04T11:37:49.957-05:00The Importance of the Accuracy of DiagnosisBy Jayson Blair, Certified Life CoachThe importance of a good diagnosis has become even clearer as pharmaceutical companies have further refined their biological silver bullets for mental illness. Medicines like, for example, serotonin reuptake inhibitors can be targeted to treat depression, obsessive compulsive disorder and a variety of other illness. But they can have dramatically harmful jayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776252097736200242.post-24111467180044277012012-01-04T11:21:00.006-05:002012-01-04T11:32:05.350-05:00DiffDx: Anxiety About AnxietyBy Jayson Blair, Certified Life Coach It’s a jungle out there. And one of the hardest forests to untangle your way through is the differences between stress and anxiety, and the differences between the many anxiety disorders. It’s enough to make you anxious. But no worries, we’ve put together a little guide. Anxiety disorders have one of the longest differential diagnosis lists of all jayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776252097736200242.post-90134767010558566232011-08-08T02:54:00.016-04:002011-08-08T04:44:16.198-04:00Is the Washington Economy Really Recession Proof?<!--[if !mso]> v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONEjayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776252097736200242.post-38079182097507906212011-07-24T14:55:00.014-04:002011-07-24T15:53:25.923-04:00The Age of 27Sitting in the passenger seat with my headphones plugged in on the second day of a long drive home to Virginia from Maine, I was listening to Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes Benz” and scanning for the latest news on my phone. As we drove south on the New Jersey Turnpike, I scanned Twitter and came across the strikingly sad, although not terribly surprising, news that jazz and R&B singer Amy Winehouse jayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776252097736200242.post-88362314995918817952010-10-25T17:04:00.009-04:002010-10-25T19:40:25.328-04:00Called to DutyThe decision was made Monday morning to fly to Bangor, Maine last Thursday to see a client who needed a check-in. The check-in was as much for me and his parents as it was for him, and it seems, as best as I can tell, that he is doing as good as possible given the coming darkness of winter. As I boarded a U.S. Airways jet to LaGuardia Airport, the layover on the way to Bangor, I thought of the jayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776252097736200242.post-17881300687714688892010-08-22T10:18:00.012-04:002010-12-20T20:18:37.098-05:00Decoding the Light in the DarknessWhen I was looking toward this week, I didn't expect that I would be visiting a museum dedicated to national security and cryptology that I had written about more than ten years ago, attending a funeral for one of my favorite uncles or returning to New York to see a group of people that I had not seen since a wedding 16 years ago in Virginia or sitting at the beside of one of them in a Christian jayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776252097736200242.post-35458922633396217512010-08-07T10:41:00.009-04:002010-08-08T20:39:20.169-04:00Trees as a Higher PowerA client I had been seeing for almost three years has had some success abstaining from alcohol and drugs, and bringing a great amount of order to her life. She now wants to be a counselor working. She, like all of us "non-civilians," struggle with stabilizing our, leaning to cope and socialize without mind-and-mood altering substances and healthier ways to calm our minds. This client has had jayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776252097736200242.post-5663978592557321882010-07-29T09:49:00.007-04:002010-07-29T11:43:51.914-04:00Down the Road from McLeanMy fascination with the sprawling 240 acre campus of McLean Hospital, in Belmont, Mass., and what was done there, began in 2003, the year I lost my job at The New York Times and days later found myself 270 miles south, at Silver Hill Hospital, in New Canaan, Conn., a premiere hospital that rivals, and in some estimations, is stronger than McLean . There, I was treated to my first experience in jayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776252097736200242.post-61120443398884756412010-02-09T19:16:00.033-05:002010-02-10T12:36:26.468-05:00'Keep shooting until you run out of bullets'We all are often asked why we do things. We often don't have logical, cogent answers.I often get asked the question "Why" I do certain things, and I often rationalize my answers - my "go big or go home personality," because of the righteousness of the mission or because of the outcomes. Sometimes, it's because of what my man David says. I'm just shooting until I run out of bullets.Many of my jayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776252097736200242.post-7552115714908292892009-12-13T12:43:00.011-05:002009-12-13T18:19:44.313-05:00When faith and treatment collideI spend a lot of time reading, devoting, consuming the ideas of others, whether they come in the form of books and blogs, magazines and television programs, newspaper articles and music. My taste in blogs run from If You're Going Through Hell, Keep Going, a thoughtful personal blog on mental health by a professional writer, Jim Romenesko's blog, which keeps me up-to-date on the latest happenings jayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776252097736200242.post-76945015377014635322009-12-02T10:24:00.007-05:002009-12-02T10:49:40.061-05:00What I learned from my friend who couldn't eatSometimes I have to remind myself that there was time when I thought that there was no mental illness in my family. Sometimes I have to remind myself that there was a time when I thought that mental illness was not a part of me. Sometimes, I do, have to remind myself that I once saw mental illness as a sign of weakness. I have to remind myself that my views didn't change once I had my first jayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776252097736200242.post-42901957024259578672009-11-30T17:38:00.006-05:002009-11-30T17:58:11.819-05:00Introversion as a gift to societyI am an introvert. This always surprises people. I have been called outgoing, charming and the life of the party. These things might be true, and while people have noticed that I like to get my social interaction in short bursts - coffee for an hour, short visits to holiday parties and quick conversations - they still have a hard time understanding why I consider myself an introvert. Simply put, jayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776252097736200242.post-27696820839628292282009-11-14T23:05:00.023-05:002009-11-15T12:20:21.520-05:00The Gift of GivingTraveling to classrooms at colleges and universities to talk about ethics, deception, substance abuse, mental health and a variety of other topics, has a redemptive quality for me. But as satisfying as it is to help see good come from my mistakes in the form of lessons learned, it has always been the human story that has captured me. As I give of myself, others give their stories back to me, jayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776252097736200242.post-5930641265483099532009-10-21T23:24:00.010-04:002009-10-22T15:06:13.165-04:00Lies, damn lies and what matters the most to peopleFor reasons that are obvious, I had been asked to speak about deception. I had been recruited for the job because of the lies I told and, interestingly, because the sponsors of the seminar realized that I had spent a lifetime – in both journalism and my mental health work now – needing to understand the motives of those working with me and identifying when individuals were lying. I declined the jayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776252097736200242.post-26186133732492748122009-10-16T00:05:00.039-04:002009-10-17T17:33:26.745-04:00When kids hold hands under water and I believe that purple rocks aren't just amethystSitting in a car in a Virginia university town today, a young friend told me the story of her first boyfriend, a 9-year-old boy from summer camp. I can't say how the conversation started - you never can with her - but its worth pointing out that I've known her for nine months and I never heard her talk fondly and in a detailed way about boys.I think her segway was something about a boyfriend she jayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776252097736200242.post-45833645182879756022009-10-02T18:36:00.003-04:002009-10-02T18:49:17.672-04:00Everyday crushesI confess.In a life filled with confessions, here's another one.I have a crush. A Starbucks crush. I think most of you know what I'm talking about. And if you have to ask, well. It was 180-millimeters of heaven. And I was blessed to just have one. Its something about the foam, proportions, the steam and, well, she could tell you. I just know - its better than any I've tasted.My Starbucks crush jayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776252097736200242.post-32095326536463747442009-09-24T19:49:00.012-04:002009-09-26T00:29:23.480-04:00When the good guys are doing us wrongDetective Robert Goren said it to Nichole Wallace on Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Sara Sidle said a version of it Gil Grissom on C.S.I. And Herman Meville probably would have said it to Sigmund Freud."Sometimes, a whale is just a whale."I am as big a fan as anyone of tough regulation of pharmaceutical companies, but it seems in recent months that the Food and Drug Administration has continue jayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776252097736200242.post-89930445127606676572009-09-20T12:58:00.018-04:002009-09-20T14:41:46.602-04:00The best coaches in life, and athleticsThe “Perfect” Coach For Your Boy* Maggie Avedisian, Ph.D. Clinical Child Psychologist This is the first post in a series of guest contributions on coaching children by Dr. Maggie Avedisian sees adults, couples, children and adolescents as a psychologist in private practice at Ashburn Psychological Services. With doctorate and post-doctorate specializations in both clinical and jayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776252097736200242.post-75342077808720383872009-09-17T23:17:00.029-04:002009-09-19T13:22:04.261-04:00Minatours, Medusa, Icarus and logic in parentingI tripped across a recent newspaper column in The New York Times that ran under the headline "When Parents Say 'I Love You,' Means 'Do as I Say.'" It made me think of three young adult clients whose parents have struggled with setting up systems of rewards and punishments that were balanced with the notion of helping their children stay safe, improve their judgment, develop and mature, become jayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776252097736200242.post-44179543882803133022009-09-07T18:34:00.006-04:002009-09-07T18:54:06.262-04:00Athletic coaches as life coachesMy friend and colleague, Dr. Maggie Avedisian, a clinical psychologist, recently asked for some thoughts on what makes a good athletic coach. Since I work with a number of teenagers, I gave Dr. Avedisian this advice for a blog article she's writing for parents on identifying good coaches and for athletic coaches on how to improve their work with their students:A good coach should recognize that jayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776252097736200242.post-71092902721001527742009-09-04T21:23:00.015-04:002009-09-04T22:37:38.757-04:00To think, that which makes me greatSitting here waiting for my dinner date, I was thumbing through a copy of the latest edition of Vanity Fair when I came across an article about The Washington Post called "Post Modern." While thumbing through the well-written could-this-be-the-one-newspaper-that-survives stories because of my interest in journalism, I stumbled across this passage that made me think that Michael Wolff, the jayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5776252097736200242.post-71153613673728086812009-09-04T20:39:00.012-04:002009-09-06T19:21:50.055-04:00The Gift of Fear (or the Gift of Intution in Protecting Yourself and Lie Detecting)A friend was recently on the phone with me walking down a New York street and she noticed a man starring at a street pole, and it didn't make her comfortable. Now, as the boys at Matchbox Twenty would put it, this is from a woman who makes friends with shadows on her wall, hears voices telling her that she should get some sleep, takes to herself in public and dodges glances on the train. What, onjayson blairhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12610410134291793845noreply@blogger.com